Middle Hill
MIDDLE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082000
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Hill
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDLE HILL
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- Date:
- 2003-08-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/11198/03
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082000
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Hill
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDDLE HILL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDLE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Birley with Upper Hill
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 47201 53716
Details
OPE UNDER DINMORE CP UPPER HILL SO 45 SE 4/77 Middle Hill 11.6.59 II
The entry shall be amended to read:- SO 45 SE BIRLEY CP UPPER HILL 4/77 Middle Hill 11.6.59 II
HOPE UNDER DINMORE CP UPPER HILL SO 45 SE 4/77 Middle Hill 11.6.59 II
House. C14, altered C17 with further mid-C19 and mid-C20 alterations. Mainly timber-framed with rendered infill on rubble base, some coursed dressed sandstone rubble walling, rendered to south. Roofs are of machine tiles, slates and some stone slates laid in diminishing courses. Hall and cross-wing plan. Hall was cruck-framed and originally of two framed bays aligned east/west; western bay demolished in C17 and eastern bay was heightened and widened. A large external rubble chimney with offsets and a detached brick stack was built at the west end. The cross-wing was originally of two framed bays, intersecting with the east end of the hall part. In the C17 it was extended by one bay to the south and an external rubble chimney with a brick stack built on the east side of the northernmost bay. Two storeys and cellar. Framing: hall part has part of cruck truss exposed at west end. This has a braced collar and cusped struts above. Wall-frames have three plus one additional row of square panels at first floor level with swept braces across upper corners and a collar and tie-beam truss with a central strut beneath the collar the the north end. The southern bay has four rows of square panels from sill to wall-plate. North front elevation: hall part has a canted C19 oriel window with narrow casements on the ground floor. To the left of this is the main entrance which has a moulded architrave, a four-panelled C19 door, a transom light with two glazing bars and a square right side light. The cross-wing gable end has a cellar door, a 3-light C20 ground floor casement and a 2-light C20 first floor casement. Lean-to additions to south-west. Interior: the cross-wing is recorded has having exposed C14 ceiling beams and much of the C17 framing is also exposed. (RCHM, Herefs, III, p 70-1, item 4; BoE, p 74; Alcock, N W: CBA Cruck Catalogue, 1981).
Listing NGR: SO4720153716
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149640
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 70-1
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 74
Alcock, N W, Council for British Archaeology Research Report in Cruck Construction An Introduction And Catalogue, (1981)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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